Carrie Coon is an actor who fans instantly know is going to elevate any project she joins. From her role in projects like The Leftoversor Gone Girl to her work on stage in the play Bug, Coon delivers a captivating performance at every turn. Now, her new movie is taking fans into the fascinating world of a cult. Coon plays Rita, a mother who needs a change in her life, who meets Ricki (Lily James) when she needs her most — or just when she’s most vulnerable. The new trailer for the new film, The Liberation, was released today, and it yet again proves to fans that Coon is a powerhouse performer.
Coon, who has been starring on the hit HBO series The Gilded Age, shines in the film’s new trailer. The Liberation is described as follows: “Rita (Carrie Coon), a woman in midlife haunted by the weight of her past, encounters magnetic young spiritual leader Ricki (Lily James) and leaves her family to follow her to an all-female commune. But when her daughters Ella (Bella Ramsey) and Jo (Odessa Young) arrive unexpectedly and become drawn into the group’s seductive world, Rita is forced to choose between the family she left behind and the life she believes can save her.”
The trailer shows Rita and her family, including her husband (played by Coon’s real-life husband, Tracy Letts), all living their normal lives before Rita meets Ricki. Described as a “stunning” exploration of a cult, what someone can lose, and how far a cult can take someone away from those who love them the most. Written and directed by Guy Nattiv, the trailer is a horrifying glimpse into what can tear someone away, and with stellar performances by Bella Ramseyand Odessa Young as Rita’s two daughters, the film puts Rita to the ultimate test.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Coen Brothers Movie Would You Thrive In? Lebowski · O Brother · Fargo · No Country
Nobody writes people like the Coen brothers. The decent ones. The talkers. The ones who stopped trying years ago. And the ones who can already see how bad this is going to get. Four films, four completely different ways of handling trouble. Eight questions decide which one you would actually walk out of.
🎳Lebowski(1998)
🎸O Brother(2000)
❄️Fargo(1996)
🪙No Country(2007)
01
A bag of money lands in your lap. What happens next? Every Coen film starts roughly here. It never goes smoothly.
02
Somebody is being completely unreasonable with you. How does it go? Coen dialogue is mostly people failing to understand each other.
03
What is your actual relationship with work? Everyone in these films is either working far too hard or not at all.
04
Long drive, bad weather, nobody else on the road. How are you? There is always a drive in these films. It is never a good drive.
05
You are offered a shortcut that is not quite legal. This is the moment where the Coens find out who you really are.
06
The plan has fallen apart completely. What is your move? In a Coen film the plan always falls apart. That is the genre.
07
Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Nobody writes a line quite like the Coens. Which one is yours?
08
How does your film end? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your movie.
The Verdict Is In Your Coen Film Is…
Four films, four completely different ways of handling money, trouble
and other people. This is the one you would survive, why it suits you, and what it would cost you to
be there.
The Big Lebowski · 1998
The Big Lebowski
You have quietly arranged your life so that very little can get
to you, and a surprising number of people find that infuriating. You would be completely at
home here.
The Dude is the only person in the film with no ambition, and the only one who comes out
the other side undamaged. That is not an accident.
You do not chase things. You let situations arrive and you deal with them at your own
pace, which is a genuine skill however lazy it looks.
This is a full crime plot happening around a man who mostly wants his rug back, and that
is exactly the energy you would bring to it.
Everything goes wrong. You abide. The film ends.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? · 2000
O Brother
You talk your way through life and it works far more often than
it should. Give you a bad situation and an audience and you will find a way out of both at
once.
Everett never has a plan that survives contact with reality. He has something better,
which is the ability to keep talking until a new one turns up.
You are the optimist in the group, the one who makes a ridiculous idea sound reasonable
at two in the morning.
This is the warmest film the Coens have made. It is a chase, a comedy and a musical at
once, and nobody in it is quite beyond saving.
You would end up famous entirely by accident, and act like you planned it all along.
Fargo · 1996
Fargo
You would survive Fargo because you are the only kind of person
who does: patient, decent, and completely unimpressed by anybody trying to be clever.
Marge Gunderson solves the whole case by being polite, thorough and unhurried while
everybody around her panics. That is the entire argument of the film.
You do the boring parts of the job, which is precisely why you would notice the thing
everyone else walked straight past.
Fargo is about ordinary greed causing enormous damage, and about one person who simply
refuses to be corrupted by any of it.
You would go home at the end of it, have dinner, and sleep perfectly well.
No Country for Old Men · 2007
No Country
You do not expect the world to be fair and you stopped being
surprised about it a long time ago. That clear-eyed quality is exactly what this film asks
for.
No Country is the Coens at their coldest: a film where being smart, fast and careful
might still not be anywhere near enough.
You plan for the worst, you keep your own counsel, and some part of you is already
working out the exit.
Llewelyn Moss is competent, prepared and resourceful, and the film is honest about
whether any of that is ever sufficient.
You would see it coming. Whether that helps is the one question the film refuses to
answer.
What’s Next for Carrie Coon?
Coon has been consistently working for decades, but her fanbase exploded following her role as Nora Durst on the HBO series The Leftovers. Then, Coon joined the Ghostbusters franchise in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Egon Spengler’s (Harold Ramis) daughter, Callie Spengler. The Gilded Age returned for Season 4 this week, following Coon’s Bertha Russell as she fights to keep her family together. Coon will also star in the upcoming Rebecca Ferguson, Greta Lee-led rom-com Honeymoon/Funeral.
The Liberation is set to be released in theaters starting on January 8, and you won’t want to miss it! Watch the new trailer above and stay tuned at Collider for more!
